I installed Amazon's new dynamic affiliate (aka Amazon Assocaiates Program) ad tool called Omakase. As you can see from the picture above Omakase recommended Josh Groban? I think Amazon needs to tune their engine as this is about the worst pick for me. Just added a new affiliate link to SEOBook.com. If you are in the marketing business I highly recommend you buy!Finished an upgrade to the latest version 0.4.9 of SPHPBLOG aka Simple PHP Blog...new Archives side bar and now integrated visit counters...

While configuring my new laptop I have run across another marketing partnership between a search engine and powerhouse. Dell sets the Microsoft Internet Explorer default page to a co-branded Google desktop. This must really fire up some people at Microsoft!
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I have been informed that the promotion of Yahoo Toolbar with Flash download has been in place for a few years before the Adobe acquired Macromedia. I also learned "You'll only see those checkboxes if you use IE/Win as your browser, and visit the download center instead of using the normal ActiveX background download." Thank you to JD from http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/

Yahoo must have shelled out some coin for this deal...or some other partnership? Adobe now owns the Flash Player which is installed on 723M PCs. According to the Adobe penetration report there are 743M "PCs using the Internet", over "96.0% of Internet-enabled desktops". I think this is worth every penny Yahoo is investing in the search portal war. I still prefer the Google Toolbar with FireFox browser.

Below is the screen shot of the Flash download screen....also note, Flash player has an excellent upgrade adoption rate.